ISBN: 9780231168816 - who's afraid of academic freedom? (12 Ergebnisse)

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Paperback. Zustand: New. In these seventeen essays, distinguished senior scholars discuss the conceptual issues surrounding the idea of freedom of inquiry and scrutinize a variety of obstacles to such inquiry that they have encountered in their personal and professional experience. Their discussion of threats to freedom traverses a wide disciplinary and institutional, political and economic range covering specific restrictions linked to speech codes, the interests of donors, institutional review board licensing, political pressure groups, and government policy, as well as phenomena of high generality, such as intellectual orthodoxy, in which coercion is barely visible and often self-imposed. As the editors say in their introduction: "No freedom can be taken for granted, even in the most well-functioning of formal democracies. Exposing the tendencies that undermine freedom of inquiry and their hidden sources and widespread implications is in itself an exercise in and for democracy.".…

Zustand: New. Editor(s): Bilgrami, Akeel; Cole, Jonathan R. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JNM; JPA; JPVH2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 27. Weight in Grams: 584. . 2016. Reprint. Paperback. . . . .

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Zustand: New. Editor(s): Bilgrami, Akeel; Cole, Jonathan R. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JNM; JPA; JPVH2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 27. Weight in Grams: 584. . 2016. Reprint. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Paperback. Zustand: New. In these seventeen essays, distinguished senior scholars discuss the conceptual issues surrounding the idea of freedom of inquiry and scrutinize a variety of obstacles to such inquiry that they have encountered in their personal and professional experience. Their discussion of threats to freedom traverses a wide disciplinary and institutional, political and economic range covering specific restrictions linked to speech codes, the interests of donors, institutional review board licensing, political pressure groups, and government policy, as well as phenomena of high generality, such as intellectual orthodoxy, in which coercion is barely visible and often self-imposed. As the editors say in their introduction: "No freedom can be taken for granted, even in the most well-functioning of formal democracies. Exposing the tendencies that undermine freedom of inquiry and their hidden sources and widespread implications is in itself an exercise in and for democracy.".…

Zustand: New. Celebrated scholars, including Joan Scott, Noam Chomsky, Stanley Fish, Judith Butler, Jon Elster, Akeel Bilgrami, and Jonathan R. Cole, examine contemporary pressures on the free pursuit of knowledge.In these seventeen essays, distinguished senior schol.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In these seventeen essays, distinguished senior scholars discuss the conceptual issues surrounding the idea of freedom of inquiry and scrutinize a variety of obstacles to such inquiry that they have encountered in their personal and professional experience. Their discussion of threats to freedom traverses a wide disciplinary and institutional, political and economic range covering specific restrictions linked to speech codes, the interests of donors, institutional review board licensing, political pressure groups, and government policy, as well as phenomena of high generality, such as intellectual orthodoxy, in which coercion is barely visible and often self-imposed.…